Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-25
NEWS AND NOTES.

Sam Jones will shortly begin work in
San Francisco.
Henry George proposes to go through
the country on a lecture tour next season.
The dealers in liquor and beer of Phila-
delphia will contest the law diVOrCing beer and
| music.
A bronze statue of John G. Brecken-
ridge will be erected next fall at Lexing-
ton, Ky.
W. S. Webb of New York offers
$500 annually as a prize for the best landscape
by an American artist.
Joaquin Miller, it is said, has pur-
chased tract of land at Fruit Vale, CAL, and is
going to establish a literary colony there"
1t is said that molten iron is transpar-
ent. Objects may be seen through the st cam
of molted metal during castin., but they take
yellow tinge.
Kingan & Co., Indianapolis packers,
have located branch house at Kansas City. 1t
is The nt-ntion of Ktngan & 90. to remove
their Atchison business from AtChisOn to Kan
sas City as soon as the new plant is completed.
The average weekly production of fish
hooks at Redditch, England Is 100000. At
the same time not less than $4,000 600 of needles
are made in the place. and about two tons
weight of pins of all sorts, Including shawl and
scarf pins
According to the Roman Catholic direc.
tory recently publish d, there are 4l3 priests
in the di. cese of New York 3l2 in BOs on, 2S7 in
Baltimore, 2S2 in Chicago, p in Phila le phia,
254 in st Louis, 227 in Milwaukee, and 2l9 in
Cincinnati.
Mrs. Ruth Smith of Bridgeport, Conn,
DIRE sses in blue silk, wears blue speCtaCles, has
her II Gals served on blue glass dishee, and
lives in blue g ass room, which she has not
left for more than ten minutes at time for
eight years.
There was large meeting of prOmi-
nent Democrats held at the Palmer house,
Chicago, last Saturday night take steps to
reorganize the party. convention will proc
ably be- He'd for May Is, when the work If re-
organization Will be performed and the Demo
Gratis again take the field
On the 18th inst. CarWin, Ill, voted no
license for the first time in twenty years, the
Minority being " Reports from ,c+rayville, in
White count -; MCLeansbGro, Hamilton county;
Eldorado, Saline county, and Mount Vernon,
Jefferson county, give signal victories for the
no license cause,
Congressman William L. Scott, whose
connections with railroad and Shipping inter
ests are heavy ann extensive, cast his vote in
Congress in favor of the inter state Commerce
law He was at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, on the 18th, and said that he Expects 10
see the law repealed at the next Eession of
Congress
Mr.. Davis, the Governor-elect of Rhode
Island and the Captain General elect of Provi-
dence Plantations, Democrat, will be inaugu-
rated nay p. It is thirty odd years since any
thing of this description has occurred in that
state. Every band in the state has been en-
gagged, and negotiations are in progress for
few hundred drums ,bugles and guns in Boston.
At q meeting of the Montreal City
Council on the 18th inst. letter was read from
Sir George stephens and sir Donald Smith
offering to donate 100000 t. establi n
jubilee hospital the sick and suffering poor,
proviaing the city would grant site on the
mOu, tain side, known as the Taylor property.
The OunCil resolved to accept the offer and
further the scheme In every possible way.
Mrs. Sarah Howe, who fed from Bos-
ton in the early part of last week. after swim
ding her lady depOsitors out of $4,000. has
been living at ST. Johns, n. B., for several days.
On Saturday she engaged a fashionable resi-
"enCe. i he house adjoins the re.idence of
President MCLe Ian of the suspended Maritime
bank, whose furniture and effects she pr posed
to purchase. He identity being dis oYered,
however, she was seized with fear and took an
early train for Canada
The evils of easy divorce may be coun-
teracted either by RESTRICTING the power of
the courts to grant deCrees or by regulating the
mode Of the marriage contract, prescribing
forms, requi ing publicity, etc. In the Forum
for May Judge Edmund II Bennett or BOst IN,
who strongly faVors the second way Of making
divorce less frequent, will show how lightly the
contract of marriage is treated in the legisls-
ton of most Of the st ties. 1t Is siDply truth
and no ex operation whatever that in many
states, notably New York, a man and wO an,
or boy and girl, may be married with less
form and ceremony than attends the purchase
of peck of potatoes.
Mr.. C. W. Clarke of Cincinnati was
passenger on a recently arrived Australian
steamer. 1t was on Sunday that the gen l. man
reached Sydney, and without losing time he
made for the hotel bar. There he was CON
from ed by decidedly antique bar maid, who
placdly, but very firmly, informed him that it
was against the law of the colonies to sell
liquor upon the Sabbath unless It could be
shown that the applicant had actually travelled
fifteen mi es upon that day. The landlord was
finally coaxed in to substantiate the fact that
The pleader at the bar had just come all the
way from san Francisco. The drink was forth
coming, but when Mr.. Clarke began to reason
that If man who has travelled IF cen miles is
entitled to one drink, he who has come 1908
miles ought to ave as many drinks as fifteen is
contained in 1000, both the bar maid and the
landlord turned pale, though neither would
gainsay the force of the mathematical logic.